Global Policy Forum

The Global Policy Forum was formed in 1993 and "monitors policy making at the United Nations, promotes accountability of global decisions, educates and mobilizes for global citizen participation, and advocates on vital issues of international peace and justice." 

Funding
"Global Policy Forum is supported primarily by contributions from generous individuals who join as members. GPF also receives grants from foundations and partner institutions. GPF is incorporated in the State of New York, registered as a charitable organization and recognized by the US Internal Revenue Service as a not-for-profit, tax-exempt organization under section 501(c)(3) of the revenue code." 

Directors

 * Karen Backus - President, K. Backus & Associates, Inc. Real Estate Consultants
 * Margaret Burnham - Professor of Law, Northeastern University Law School
 * Paul Chevigny - Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
 * Devaleena Das Ullah - Assistant General Counsel, American International Companies
 * Peter J. Davies - Treasurer - North American Representative, Saferworld, Former President, InterAction, Former UN Representative, Oxfam
 * Catherine Dumait-Harper - Former UN Representative, Médecins Sans Frontières
 * Diana Gordon - Vice Chair - Senior Research Scholar, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Former Professor of Political Science, City College CUNY, Former President, National Council on Crime and Delinquency
 * Joel Krieger - Board Chair
 * Norma Wilentz Hess - Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College, Editor-in-Chief, Oxford Companion to Politics of the World
 * James A. Paul - ex officio Executive Director, Global Policy Forum
 * Michael Renner - Senior Researcher, Worldwatch Institute
 * Aruna Chandra Spencer - Deputy General Counsel, Seedco

Past Board Members
(Affiliations that were current when they served) Source
 * Beverlee Bruce - Program Director, Social Science Research Council, Former Board Chair, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
 * Erskine Childers (1929-1996) - Founding Member of Global Policy Forum, Former Senior Advisor, UN Director-General for Development; Secretary General, World Federation of United Nations Associations
 * Ruth Steinkraus Cohen (1920-2002) - UN Representative, National Council for International Visitors; former national board member, United Nations Association-USA.
 * David Cortright - President, Fourth Freedom Forum; Visiting Faculty Fellow, Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame University
 * Clarence J. Dias - President, International Center for Law in Development, Former Faculty Member, Department of Law, University of Bombay
 * Richard A. Falk - Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Princeton University
 * Joanne Landy - Executive Director, Campaign for Peace and Democracy
 * John Langmore - Representative of the International Labor Organization to the UN Former Director, Division for Social Policy Development (DESA) UN Former Member, Australian House of Representatives (1984-1996)
 * Virginia A. Leary - Professor of Law and SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, University of Buffalo School of Law
 * Saul H. Mendlovitz - Dag Hammarskjold Professor of Peace and World Order Studies, Rutgers University School of Law; Co-Director, World Order Models Project; Editor, Alternatives
 * Patricia Mische - President, Global Education Associates
 * Gerard Piel (1915-2004) - Chairman Emeritus, Scientific American; author, Only One World
 * Anne S. Walker - Executive Director, International Women's Tribune Center

Europe Board
Source
 * Tanja Brühl - Chairperson, Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Frankfurt
 * Jens Martens - Executive Boardmember
 * Michèle Roth - Treasurer, Director of the Development and Peace Foundation
 * Volker Weyel - Former Editor-in-chief of the magazine “Vereinte Nationen”, published by the German UN Association.

Contact

 * Web: http://www.globalpolicy.org